Ubisofts XDefiant Is Officially Shut Down

XDefiant, the free-to-play, first-person arena shooter developed and published by Ubisoft, is officially offline. The servers are now closed, according to a post on the games' official X page.

XDefiant's days have been numbered since Ubisoft announced that the game would be shut down in December 2024. An announcement shared on XDefiant's X page said that the shooter didn't gain enough traction with players and that it was too much to "sensibly continue."

"Free-to-play, in particular, is a long journey," executive producer Mark Rubin wrote in the post. "Many free-to-play games take a long time to find their footing and become profitable. It's a long journey that Ubisoft and the team's working on the game were prepared to make until very recently. But unfortunately, the journey became too much to sensibly continue."